Improvement in breech-loading ordnance



G. P. GANSTER.

Breech-Loading Ordnance.

Patented Sept. 9, 1862.

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)UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

cEoRcE r. GANSTER, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN BREECH-LOADING' ORDNANCE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 36,401, dated September9, 1862.

thereon, in which the same letter represents the same thing in eachfigure.

Figure 1 represents the cannon with the eccentric breech-pin in positionto receive the charge. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal cut section,

showing the relation of the eccentric breechpin to the bore of the gun.Fig. 3 represents the cannon with the eccentric breech-pin in place.Fig. 4 is the combined wrench and ramrod. Fig. 5 represents the innerend of the eccentric breech-pin. Fig. 6 represents the outer end of theeccentric breech-pin.

A is the shell of the cannon; B, the eccentric breech-pin; G, andranirod, E the wrench, and F the ramrod. D is the aperture in theeccentric breech-pin through which the charge is inserted. D is a secondaperture in the eccentric breech-pin used with D to turn the breech-pin.G is the bore of the cannon; H, the aperturethrough which a magnet-wireis inserted to discharge it.

and E being the prongs of The operation of the cannon is as followsInsert the prongs E and E ofthe combined wrench and ramrod O in theapertures D and D of the eccentric breech-pin-B, and give ita half-turn,which will bring aperture D in line with thebore G 'of the cannon,remove the wrench, insert the charge in aperture D, driving it home .inthe chamber of the cannon wrench and ramthe wrench as before toapertures D andD, and turn the breech-pin back to its place.

1 The cannon may then be discharged by a mag net-wire through aperture Hin the breechpin. The eccentric breech-pin B is not inserted in thecenter of the breech of the cannon, but on one side of the center, sothatwh en half turned aperture D is brought in line with bore G, andwhen turned back it closes the barrel. The screw on which it turns backand forth holds it in position. What I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is i The eccentric breech-pin B, constructed andoperating substantially as described.

GEORGE P. GANSTER.

Witnesses:

ANDREW I. TQDD, CHAS. MORRILL.

